Thursday, March 13, 2014

Artist Trading Cards

ATC's aren't something I normally do. But I'm headed to the Heirloom Rubber Stamps Show in Allentown, PA, this weekend and there's always an ATC contest. The theme this year is Irish Luck. The competition is fierce, so I'll be needin' a bit o' luck meself, if I'm to be winnin'.

The poker player is a stamp from Stamper's Best. I stamped it a few times so I could fussy cut and add a few more coin piles. My DH suggested the gold tooth. The shamrock stamp is from CTMH.
For the next ATC I used some vintage playing card paper I found in my stash. I cut a tag with shamrock aperture using the Artiste CTMH cricut cartridge. Then I stamped CTMH images of a ticket and shamrock with sentiment and fussy cut. Everything was distressed with green ink.
The cute little piggy will be lucky indeed if he collects any kisses. After all, he is a pig. He's a From the Heart digi image. The sentiment is a rub on, and the shamrock is CTMH.
And the last card has gold textured paper under the white cardstock background. I took a few different CTMH ink pads (sweet leaf, ponderosa pine, olive green, creme brulee) and smeared them across the CS before random stamping the CTMH shamrocks, punching the corners and adding a piece of sheer green ribbon. I used a wood stamp I found in a dollar bin at ACMoore and 2nd generation stamped it on white CS. Then I stamped half of the CTMH sentiment over it. The second half of the CTMH sentiment was stamped over another solid shamrock. I spritzed both with gold mist and then cut them out. The cloud/rainbow/pot of gold is another CTMH stamp which I colored, fussy cut and then added glitter to the gold and glaze to the pot.

May I ask where you are located? I live in Breinigsville just outside of Allentown. I am also going to the heirloom show. I have not been living here for very long and would really really like to meet some new papercrafting friends. Thank you, Lynn

May I ask where you are located? I live in Breinigsville just outside of Allentown. I am also going to the heirloom show. I have not been living here for very long and would really really like to meet some new papercrafting friends. Thank you, Lynn